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A medical ventilator is a device designed to provide mechanical ventilation to a patient. Ventilators are chiefly used in intensive care medicine, home care, and emergency medicine (as standalone units) and in anesthesia (as a component of an anesthesia machine). ... |
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Ventilator Management |
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Many different strategies of positive-pressure ventilation are available; these are based on various permutations of triggered volume-cycled and pressure-cycled ventilations and are delivered at a range of rates, volumes, and pressures. Given both the risks of poor ventilatory management (inflicting serious pulmonary damage) ... |
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Energy Recovery Ventilator |
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An energy recovery ventilator (ERV) is a type of mechanical equipment that features a heat exchanger combined with a ventilation system for providing controlled ventilation into a building.An energy recovery ventilator with humidity regulation incorporates a method to remove excess humidity or add humidity to the ventilating air that is being ... |
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Implement the Ventilator Bundle |
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By definition, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an airways infection that must have developed more than 48 hours after the patient was intubated. Preventing pneumonia of any variety seems at first blush to be a laudable goal. However, there are some reasons to be particularly concerned about the impact of pneumonia ... |
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection |
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Advances in emergency medicine, surgery, and technology enable medical professionals to save more lives than ever before. But with all the progress, the basics of good care — such as preventing hospital-acquired infection — are more important than ever. Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, has had an effective infection ... |
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Patient-Ventilator System Checks |
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All data relevant to the patient-ventilator system check must be recorded on the appropriate hospital form(s) at the time of performance, must be included as an official part of the patient's medical record,(1,6,7) and include observations indicative of the ventilator's operation at the time of the check (except where "should" is used)... |
